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BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2023
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Topic: Cancer screening
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AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) (2023) BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2023, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 25 June 2026, doi:10.25816/w6zm-mt86.
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48% of women in the targeted age group of 50–74 participated in the BreastScreen Australia in 2020–2021, with around 1.7 million screening.
Breast cancer mortality has decreased since BreastScreen Australia began, from 74 deaths per 100,000 women aged 50–74 in 1991, to 38 deaths per 100,000 women in 2021.
- ISBN: 978-1-923085-16-12
- DOI: 10.25816/w6zm-mt86
- Cat. no: CAN 155
- Pages: 132
Findings from this report:
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In 2020–2021, around 1.7 million women participated in the BreastScreen Australia. This was 48% of women aged 50–74
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In 2019, breast cancer was the most common cancer in Australian women, with 331 new cases per 100,000 women aged 50–74
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In 2021, 59% of breast cancers detected through BreastScreen Australia for participants aged 50–74 were small (≤15 mm)
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In 2019, of all breast cancer cases in women aged 50–74, 50% were detected through BreastScreen Australia